❄ Winter Break ❄

Ask Your Child About...

1. Sequencing a story from beginning to end

2. Creating addition and subtraction equations

3. How to make plywood

4. All of the fun crafts and activities this week

✨ Wow! It has been quite a week - full of discoveries and fun! We started off the week very similarly to any other week, but we quickly become swept up in all of the festive fun. One of our first excitements was chasing after the Gingerbread Man. He is quite the mischievous little fellow! We started our hunt in the library where we found the Gingerbread Man pretending to sleep on a pan. We then read a story and somehow the Gingerbread Man escaped! He was loose in the school! We went on a hunt through the other classrooms where he had done various things including putting everyone asleep, knocking all the chairs and desks over, and putting the student into an endless singing spell! We never did find that pesky Gingerbread Man, so don't be alarmed if you notice him around your house causing trouble. 🙂

    

⛄ You will find various crafts coming home with your child today including a new favorite: snow painting! This craft was a ton of fun and very easy to create. You can get all of the materials (shaving cream, glue and glitter or buffalo snow) at any store... I got mine from the Dollar Tree! This would be a good craft to get creative with at home, and if you want to make an academic connection you could have your child write with the paint. So much fun!

      

🍎 A special thank you goes out to all of the parents who helped bring supplies for our celebration this afternoon. The kids loved it and agreed a future Paw Jar celebration should be a game day. I will let you know when we plan to bring games for our Paw Jar celebration. Thank you!

🎅 We had a wonderful time celebrating our winter season with an all school Lincoln/Mann Sing-A-Long assembly! The kids have been working on the winter songs during music and were very excited to sing them along with all of the other students. My apologies for the not so great photo below... there was a lot going on! The video clip at the beginning of this post is a little taste of one of the kiddos' favorite songs: Light A Candle For Peace. So sweet!

😊 I hope you all have the most wonderful winter break and are able to get plenty of rest and relaxation filled with loads of fun with family and friends. I will see you all again in two weeks on January 7th. Thank you all for everything you do each and every day to help your child be their best selves!